Great British Chefs

Great British Chefs is British-based food website that contains a collection of recipes, as well as instructional guides, videos, features on British food, and profiles of chefs and restaurants in the UK.

Logo of Great British Chefs

Apps

The first Great British Chefs iOS app was released in July 2011 and featured 12 chefs, who each provided 5 recipes. The app was included in the Sunday Times' top 500 apps list, won a silver Lovie Award for Best Tablet App and was also featured in Apps Magazine's Top 100 Apps Ever.[1][2]

The second Great British Chefs app, 'Feastive', was released in November 2011.

Great British Chefs' third app, 'Summertime', was produced in partnership with the online supermarket Ocado with a shopping list feature to purchase ingredients.[3] The apps also have the ability to share recipes on social networking services.[4] A portion of the revenue from the sale of the Summertime app went to the charity Action Against Hunger.[5]

There was also an app for Windows 8[6]

Reception

Reviews of the iOS apps were positive with The Telegraph praising the low price of compared to traditional cookbooks and the "superb photography [which] makes it equally lovely to look at".[4] Technology website Pocket-Lint praised the navigation of the app and listed it as "app of the day" on July 27, 2011.[7]

gollark: It's quite bad for your health.
gollark: *receives fatal radiation poisoning from gamma rays*
gollark: True enough, I guess! You could probably just edit your mind if it was a problem, if you had the technology to upload it into plasma.
gollark: "Flesh" is the biological carbon-y meat humans/animals/etc are currently made of. The particles or whatever would be your *body*, but not "flesh".
gollark: Hmm, that *would* be better actually.

References
  1. Ian (January 2012). "Great British Chefs makes it into the Sunday Times Top 500 best apps". WeAreApps. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  2. "1st Annual Lovie Honourees". The Lovie Awards. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  3. Richmond, Shane (9 August 2012). "Great British Chefs Summertime HD app review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  4. Warman, Matt (24 November 2011). "Great British Chefs Feastive iPad app review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  5. Dredge, Stuart (18 July 2012). "Great British Chefs - Summertime: app of the day". MSN Tech. Archived from the original on 18 November 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  6. "Great British Chefs app for Windows in the Windows Store". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
  7. Henderson, Rik (27 July 2011). "APP OF THE DAY: Great British Chefs - Recipes review (iPad / iPhone)". Pocket-Lint. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
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